2018 NHL Entry Draft

Dallas, Texas - June 22 and 23, 2018

Summary statistics

			POSITION SPLIT			NATIONALITY SPLIT
ROUND	TO NHL	GP	FWD	DEF	GOA..
Round 1	90.32%	232.4	54.8%	45.2%	0.0%	32.3%	19.4%	19.4%	12.9%	6.5%	9.7%
Round 2	64.52%	91.2	51.6%	41.9%	6.5%	41.9%	12.9%	25.8%	12.9%	3.2%	3.2%
Round 3	54.84%	40.1	64.5%	22.6%	12.9%	19.4%	29.0%	16.1%	12.9%	9.7%	12.9%
Round 4	29.03%	28.3	67.7%	22.6%	9.7%	25.8%	45.2%	3.2%	3.2%	3.2%	19.4%
Round 5	38.71%	23.6	41.9%	41.9%	16.1%	35.5%	19.4%	9.7%	3.2%	12.9%	19.4%
Round 6	29.03%	19.5	41.9%	32.3%	25.8%	45.2%	19.4%	16.1%	6.5%	3.2%	9.7%
Round 7	9.68%	4.2	58.1%	19.4%	22.6%	35.5%	22.6%	6.5%	12.9%	12.9%	9.7%
TOTAL¹		62.8	54.4%	32.3%	13.4%	33.6%	24.0%	13.8%	9.2%	7.4%	12.0%
TO NHL²	45.16%		44.1%	50.0%	37.9%	42.5%	46.2%	46.7%	50.0%	37.5%	50.0%

¹⁾ Percentage of drafted players in each category (e.g. 33.6% of all drafted players were Canadian).
²⁾ Percentage of players that made it to NHL (e.g. 42.5% of all drafted Canadians have played in NHL).

Summary statistics on team draft performance

					OVERALL				PER DRAFT PICK
Rk	TEAM	WAPP¹	PICKS	TO NHL	GP	G	A	P	GP	G	A	P
1	Buffalo Sabres	5.64	6	33.3%	721	90	313	403	120.2	15.0	52.2	67.2
2	Carolina Hurricanes	10.81	6	33.3%	664	171	248	419	110.7	28.5	41.3	69.8
3	Montreal Canadiens	23.19	11	45.5%	1106	114	229	343	100.5	10.4	20.8	31.2
4	Ottawa Senators	23.22	8	62.5%	696	200	233	433	87.0	25.0	29.1	54.1
5	Vancouver Canucks	29.58	6	16.7%	433	59	350	409	72.2	9.8	58.3	68.2
6	New York Islanders	31.00	8	50.0%	627	87	217	304	78.4	10.9	27.1	38.0
7	Detroit Red Wings	31.35	10	40.0%	744	109	122	231	74.4	10.9	12.2	23.1
8	Arizona Coyotes	31.96	9	66.7%	683	70	135	205	75.9	7.8	15.0	22.8
9	Edmonton Oilers	32.82	5	80.0%	803	119	300	419	160.6	23.8	60.0	83.8
10	New York Rangers	36.79	10	40.0%	617	51	137	188	61.7	5.1	13.7	18.8
11	Chicago Blackhawks	36.88	8	50.0%	598	77	159	236	74.8	9.6	19.9	29.5
12	Philadelphia Flyers	44.82	8	50.0%	569	94	116	210	71.1	11.8	14.5	26.3
13	Florida Panthers	48.78	6	16.7%	33	0	7	7	5.5	0.0	1.2	1.2
14	Dallas Stars	53.09	8	37.5%	299	20	48	68	37.4	2.5	6.0	8.5
15	Columbus Blue Jackets	56.91	6	83.3%	406	87	85	172	67.7	14.5	14.2	28.7
16	San Jose Sharks	62.43	5	80.0%	186	15	25	40	37.2	3.0	5.0	8.0
17	Los Angeles Kings	64.00	7	28.6%	249	18	27	45	35.6	2.6	3.9	6.4
18	Colorado Avalanche	64.05	8	50.0%	181	13	19	32	22.6	1.6	2.4	4.0
19	New Jersey Devils	64.45	6	50.0%	539	110	138	248	89.8	18.3	23.0	41.3
20	Anaheim Ducks	65.14	7	57.1%	525	36	53	89	75.0	5.1	7.6	12.7
21	Washington Capitals	66.72	7	28.6%	379	23	60	83	54.1	3.3	8.6	11.9
22	St. Louis Blues	66.87	6	66.7%	273	7	41	48	45.5	1.2	6.8	8.0
23	Minnesota Wild	77.22	8	37.5%	480	58	78	136	60.0	7.3	9.8	17.0
24	Pittsburgh Penguins	80.79	4	50.0%	155	6	44	50	38.8	1.5	11.0	12.5
25	Toronto Maple Leafs	81.79	9	66.7%	719	64	220	284	79.9	7.1	24.4	31.6
26	Boston Bruins	101.68	5	20.0%	139	11	17	28	27.8	2.2	3.4	5.6
27	Winnipeg Jets	117.78	6	50.0%	262	13	32	45	43.7	2.2	5.3	7.5
28	Tampa Bay Lightning	120.91	7	42.9%	119	12	9	21	17.0	1.7	1.3	3.0
29	Vegas Golden Knights	123.34	8	12.5%	217	38	29	67	27.1	4.8	3.6	8.4
30	Calgary Flames	131.52	5	20.0%	144	12	37	49	28.8	2.4	7.4	9.8
31	Nashville Predators	143.06	4	25.0%	51	2	7	9	12.8	0.5	1.8	2.3

¹⁾ The Weighted Average Pick Position (WAPP) is determined using a harmonic mean, which gives the highest weight to the first overall pick, the second highest to the second overall pick, etc. The thinking behind this approach is that the relative difference between the first and the fifth pick is much higher than the difference between e.g. the 130th and 135th pick. The smallest number is granted to the team with the lowest overall pick position in the draft.

Round 1

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
1	Rasmus Dahlin	2000	Buffalo Sabres	D	509	83	277	360	378	-58
2	Andrei Svechnikov	2000	Carolina Hurricanes	F	478	151	213	364	427	40
3	Jesperi Kotkaniemi	2000	Montreal Canadiens	F	476	76	118	194	234	7
4	Brady Tkachuk	1999	Ottawa Senators	F	512	191	213	404	750	-57
5	Barrett Hayton	2000	Arizona Coyotes	F	291	55	75	130	147	-31
6	Filip Zadina	1999	Detroit Red Wings	F	262	41	50	91	40	-95
7	Quinn Hughes	1999	Vancouver Canucks	D	433	59	350	409	175	31
8	Adam Boqvist	2000	Chicago Blackhawks	D	244	27	72	99	50	-50
9	Vitaly Kravtsov	1999	New York Rangers	F	64	6	6	12	14	-3
10	Evan Bouchard	1999	Edmonton Oilers	D	347	55	183	238	124	57
11	Oliver Wahlstrom	2000	New York Islanders	F	236	37	36	73	176	-13
12	Noah Dobson	2000	New York Islanders	D	388	50	180	230	118	-3
13	Ty Dellandrea	2000	Dallas Stars	F	219	15	35	50	159	-33
14	Joel Farabee	2000	Philadelphia Flyers	F	415	93	114	207	229	-36
15	Grigory Denisenko	2000	Florida Panthers	F	33	0	7	7	12	-7
16	Martin Kaut	1999	Colorado Avalanche	F	56	6	5	11	10	-4
17	Ty Smith	2000	New Jersey Devils	D	131	9	40	49	52	-31
18	Liam Foudy	2000	Columbus Blue Jackets	F	104	7	15	22	16	-29
19	Jay O'Brien	1999	Philadelphia Flyers	F
20	Rasmus Kupari	2000	Los Angeles Kings	F	217	14	24	38	52	-21
21	Ryan Merkley	2000	San Jose Sharks	D	39	1	5	6	8	-10
22	K'Andre Miller	2000	New York Rangers	D	368	36	96	132	162	49
23	Isac Lundeström	1999	Anaheim Ducks	F	337	35	49	84	38	-41
24	Filip Johansson	2000	Minnesota Wild	D
25	Dominik Bokk	2000	St. Louis Blues	F
26	Jacob Bernard-Docker	2000	Ottawa Senators	D	144	6	18	24	57	-1
27	Nicolas Beaudin	1999	Chicago Blackhawks	D	22	2	4	6	2	1
28	Nils Lundkvist	2000	New York Rangers	D	183	9	35	44	62	16
29	Rasmus Sandin	2000	Toronto Maple Leafs	D	309	20	96	116	100	11
30	Joseph Veleno	2000	Detroit Red Wings	F	306	38	43	81	98	-65
31	Alexander Alexeyev	1999	Washington Capitals	D	80	1	7	8	12	-8

Round 2

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
32	Mattias Samuelsson	2000	Buffalo Sabres	D	212	7	36	43	88	3
33	Jonatan Berggren	2000	Detroit Red Wings	F	154	29	29	58	32	-28
34	Serron Noel	2000	Florida Panthers	F
35	Jesse Ylönen	1999	Montreal Canadiens	F	111	12	17	29	14	-7
36	Jared McIsaac	2000	Detroit Red Wings	D
37	Jett Woo	2000	Vancouver Canucks	D
38	Alexander Romanov	2000	Montreal Canadiens	D	354	17	66	83	157	33
39	Olof Lindbom	2000	New York Rangers	G
40	Ryan McLeod	1999	Edmonton Oilers	F	298	52	76	128	56	23
41	Bode Wilde	2000	New York Islanders	D
42	Jack Drury	2000	Carolina Hurricanes	F	186	20	35	55	71	11
43	Ruslan Iskhakov	2000	New York Islanders	F	1	0	1	1	0	0
44	Albin Eriksson	2000	Dallas Stars	F
45	Scott Perunovich	1998	St. Louis Blues	D	108	2	30	32	30	0
46	Martin Fehervary	1999	Washington Capitals	D	299	22	53	75	112	13
47	Kody Clark	1999	Washington Capitals	F
48	Jonny Tychonick	2000	Ottawa Senators	D
49	Kirill Marchenko	2000	Columbus Blue Jackets	F	216	75	66	141	50	1
50	Adam Ginning	2000	Philadelphia Flyers	D	11	1	0	1	2	-1
51	Akil Thomas	2000	Los Angeles Kings	F	32	4	3	7	9	-4
52	Sean Durzi	1998	Toronto Maple Leafs	D	242	25	92	117	187	-18
53	Calen Addison	2000	Pittsburgh Penguins	D	152	6	44	50	96	-59
54	Benoit-Olivier Groulx	2000	Anaheim Ducks	F	65	1	4	5	24	-9
55	Kevin Bahl	2000	Arizona Coyotes	D	221	7	38	45	162	-7
56	Jacob Olofsson	2000	Montreal Canadiens	F
57	Axel Andersson	2000	Boston Bruins	D
58	Filip Hållander	2000	Pittsburgh Penguins	F	3	0	0	0	0	0
59	Gabriel Fortier	2000	Tampa Bay Lightning	F	11	1	0	1	4	-2
60	David Gustafsson	2000	Winnipeg Jets	F	149	6	14	20	13	10
61	Ivan Morozov	2000	Vegas Golden Knights	F
62	Olivier Rodrigue	2000	Edmonton Oilers	G	2	0	0	0	0

Round 3

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
63	Jack McBain	2000	Minnesota Wild	F	241	35	47	82	198	2
64	Justus Annunen	2000	Colorado Avalanche	G	52	0	1	1	0
65	Jan Jenik	2000	Arizona Coyotes	F	24	4	2	6	20	-5
66	Cameron Hillis	2000	Montreal Canadiens	F	1	0	0	0	0	0
67	Alec Regula	2000	Detroit Red Wings	D	22	1	0	1	16	-5
68	Tyler Madden	1999	Vancouver Canucks	F
69	Jake Wise	2000	Chicago Blackhawks	F
70	Jakob Ragnarsson	1999	New York Rangers	D
71	Jordan Harris	2000	Montreal Canadiens	D	164	9	28	37	62	-6
72	Jakub Skarek	1999	New York Islanders	G	2	0	0	0	0
73	Ty Emberson	2000	Arizona Coyotes	D	106	3	20	23	24	-9
74	Niklas Nordgren	2000	Chicago Blackhawks	F
75	Oscar Bäck	2000	Dallas Stars	F	73	4	12	16	8	1
76	Semyon Der-Arguchintsev	2000	Toronto Maple Leafs	F	1	0	0	0	0	1
77	Jakub Lauko	2000	Boston Bruins	F	139	11	17	28	90	-14
78	Sampo Ranta	2000	Colorado Avalanche	F	16	0	0	0	6	-4
79	Blake McLaughlin	2000	Anaheim Ducks	F
80	Marcus Karlberg	2000	Columbus Blue Jackets	F
81	Seth Barton	1999	Detroit Red Wings	D
82	Bulat Shafigullin	1999	Los Angeles Kings	F
83	Riley Stotts	2000	Toronto Maple Leafs	F
84	Jesper Eliasson	2000	Detroit Red Wings	G
85	Lukas Dostal	2000	Anaheim Ducks	G	121	0	0	0	8
86	Alexander Khovanov	2000	Minnesota Wild	F
87	Linus Karlsson	1999	San Jose Sharks	F	27	3	3	6	6	5
88	Joey Keane	1999	New York Rangers	D	2	0	0	0	2	-1
89	Logan Hutsko	1999	Florida Panthers	F
90	Dmitri Semykin	2000	Tampa Bay Lightning	D
91	Nathan Smith	1998	Winnipeg Jets	F	14	2	2	4	6	-2
92	Connor Dewar	1999	Minnesota Wild	F	238	23	30	53	117	-20
93	Riley Sutter	1999	Washington Capitals	F

Round 4

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
94	Matej Pekar	2000	Buffalo Sabres	F
95	Johnny Gruden	2000	Ottawa Senators	F	16	1	0	1	5	-2
96	Luke Henman	2000	Carolina Hurricanes	F
97	Allan McShane	2000	Montreal Canadiens	F
98	Ryan O'Reilly	2000	Detroit Red Wings	F
99	Stanislav Demin	2000	Vegas Golden Knights	D
100	Adam Mascherin	1998	Dallas Stars	F
101	Nico Gross	2000	New York Rangers	D
102	Jasper Weatherby	1998	San Jose Sharks	F	50	5	6	11	18	-14
103	Jacob Pivonka	2000	New York Islanders	F
104	Lenni Killinen	2000	Carolina Hurricanes	F
105	Martin Pospisil	1999	Calgary Flames	F	144	12	37	49	193	17
106	Curtis Douglas	2000	Dallas Stars	F
107	Joel Hofer	2000	St. Louis Blues	G	69	0	3	3	6
108	Demetrios Koumontzis	2000	Calgary Flames	F
109	Tyler Weiss	2000	Colorado Avalanche	F
110	Xavier Bernard	2000	New Jersey Devils	D
111	Jachym Kondelik	1999	Nashville Predators	F
112	John St. Ivany	1999	Philadelphia Flyers	D	33	0	2	2	19	-3
113	Aidan Dudas	2000	Los Angeles Kings	F
114	Ivan Prosvetov	1999	Arizona Coyotes	G	24	0	0	0	0
115	Paul Cotter	1999	Vegas Golden Knights	F	217	38	29	67	124	-29
116	Jackson Perbix	2000	Anaheim Ducks	F
117	Linus Lindstrand-Cronholm	2000	Buffalo Sabres	D
118	Mac Hollowell	1998	Toronto Maple Leafs	D	6	0	2	2	2	3
119	Curtis Hall	2000	Boston Bruins	F
120	Philipp Kurashev	1999	Chicago Blackhawks	F	317	48	82	130	75	-129
121	Alexander Green	1998	Tampa Bay Lightning	D
122	Milos Roman	1999	Calgary Flames	F
123	Jack Gorniak	1999	Montreal Canadiens	F
124	Mitchell Gibson	1999	Washington Capitals	G

Round 5

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
125	Miska Kukkonen	2000	Buffalo Sabres	D
126	Angus Crookshank	1999	Ottawa Senators	F	21	2	2	4	4	-4
127	Wyatte Wylie	1999	Philadelphia Flyers	D
128	Cole Fonstad	2000	Montreal Canadiens	F
129	Justin Almeida	1999	Pittsburgh Penguins	F
130	Toni Utunen	2000	Vancouver Canucks	D
131	Spencer Stastney	2000	Nashville Predators	D	51	2	7	9	10	7
132	Lauri Pajuniemi	1999	New York Rangers	F
133	Samuel Houde	2000	Montreal Canadiens	F
134	Blade Jenkins	2000	New York Islanders	F
135	Brandon Kruse	1999	Vegas Golden Knights	F
136	Akira Schmid	2000	New Jersey Devils	G	48	0	2	2	2
137	Riley Damiani	2000	Dallas Stars	F	7	1	1	2	2	0
138	Hugh McGing	1998	St. Louis Blues	F	6	0	0	0	0	-5
139	Mikael Hakkarainen	1998	Chicago Blackhawks	F
140	Brandon Saigeon	1998	Colorado Avalanche	F
141	Yegor Sharangovich	1998	New Jersey Devils	F	360	101	96	197	59	-59
142	Michael Callahan	1999	Arizona Coyotes	D	17	1	0	1	7	-5
143	Samuel Ersson	1999	Philadelphia Flyers	G	110	0	0	0	6
144	David Hrenak	1998	Los Angeles Kings	G
145	Dennis Busby	2000	Arizona Coyotes	D
146	Daniil Zhuravlyov	2000	Colorado Avalanche	D
147	Roman Durny	1998	Anaheim Ducks	G
148	Simon Johansson	1999	Minnesota Wild	D
149	Filip Kral	1999	Toronto Maple Leafs	D	2	0	0	0	2	0
150	Declan Chisholm	2000	Winnipeg Jets	D	99	5	16	21	28	-11
151	Vladislav Yeryomenko	1999	Nashville Predators	D
152	Magnus Chrona	2000	Tampa Bay Lightning	G	9	0	0	0	0
153	Giovanni Vallati	2000	Winnipeg Jets	D
154	Connor Corcoran	2000	Vegas Golden Knights	D
155	Damien Giroux	2000	Minnesota Wild	F	1	0	1	1	2	0

Round 6

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
156	Pontus Holmberg	1999	Toronto Maple Leafs	F	159	19	30	49	63	15
157	Kevin Mandolese	2000	Ottawa Senators	G	3	0	0	0	0
158	David Tendeck	1999	Arizona Coyotes	G
159	Tim Berni	2000	Columbus Blue Jackets	D	59	1	2	3	34	-26
160	Victor Brattström	1997	Detroit Red Wings	G
161	Alex Kannok-Leipert	2000	Washington Capitals	D
162	Alexis Gravel	2000	Chicago Blackhawks	G
163	Simon Kjellberg	2000	New York Rangers	D
164	Michael Kesselring	2000	Edmonton Oilers	D	156	12	41	53	161	14
165	Johan Södergran	1999	Los Angeles Kings	F
166	Jesper Sellgren	1998	Carolina Hurricanes	D
167	Mathias Emilio Pettersen	2000	Calgary Flames	F
168	Dawson Barteaux	2000	Dallas Stars	D
169	Mathias Laferriere	2000	St. Louis Blues	F
170	Justin Schütz	2000	Florida Panthers	F
171	Nikolai Kovalenko	1999	Colorado Avalanche	F	57	7	13	20	16	-9
172	Mitchell Hoelscher	2000	New Jersey Devils	F
173	Veini Vehviläinen	1997	Columbus Blue Jackets	G	1	0	0	0	0
174	Gavin Hain	2000	Philadelphia Flyers	F
175	Jacob Ingham	2000	Los Angeles Kings	G
176	Zacharie Emond	2000	San Jose Sharks	G
177	Liam Gorman	2000	Pittsburgh Penguins	F
178	Hunter Drew	1998	Anaheim Ducks	D	2	0	0	0	5	0
179	Shawn Boudrias	1999	Minnesota Wild	F
180	Peter Diliberatore	2000	Vegas Golden Knights	D
181	Dustyn McFaul	2000	Boston Bruins	D
182	John Leonard	1998	San Jose Sharks	F	70	6	11	17	4	-13
183	Cole Koepke	1998	Tampa Bay Lightning	F	99	11	9	20	19	-4
184	Jared Moe	1999	Winnipeg Jets	G
185	Xavier Bouchard	2000	Vegas Golden Knights	D
186	Artyom Manukyan	1998	Vancouver Canucks	F

Round 7

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
187	William Worge Kreü	2000	Buffalo Sabres	D
188	Jakov Novak	1998	Ottawa Senators	F
189	Liam Kirk	2000	Arizona Coyotes	F
190	Brett Stapley	1999	Montreal Canadiens	F
191	Otto Kivenmäki	2000	Detroit Red Wings	F
192	Matthew Thiessen	2000	Vancouver Canucks	G
193	Josiah Slavin	1998	Chicago Blackhawks	F	15	0	1	1	4	0
194	Luke Loheit	2000	Ottawa Senators	F
195	Patrik Siikanen	2000	Edmonton Oilers	F
196	Christian Krygier	2000	New York Islanders	D
197	Jacob Kucharski	1999	Carolina Hurricanes	G
198	Dmitry Zavgorodny	2000	Calgary Flames	F
199	Jermaine Loewen	1998	Dallas Stars	F
200	Tyler Tucker	2000	St. Louis Blues	D	90	5	8	13	128	-4
201	Cole Krygier	2000	Florida Panthers	D
202	Shamil Shmakov	1999	Colorado Avalanche	G
203	Eetu Päkkilä	1999	New Jersey Devils	F
204	Trey Fix-Wolansky	1999	Columbus Blue Jackets	F	26	4	2	6	2	-6
205	Marcus Westfält	2000	Philadelphia Flyers	F
206	Radim Salda	1999	Tampa Bay Lightning	D
207	Santtu Kinnunen	1999	Florida Panthers	D
208	Jordan Kooy	2000	Vegas Golden Knights	G
209	Zachary Bouthillier	1999	Toronto Maple Leafs	G
210	Sam Hentges	1999	Minnesota Wild	F
211	Semyon Kizimov	2000	Toronto Maple Leafs	F
212	Pavel Shen	1999	Boston Bruins	F
213	Milan Kloucek	1998	Nashville Predators	G
214	Ty Taylor	1999	Tampa Bay Lightning	G
215	Austin Wong	2000	Winnipeg Jets	F
216	Riley Hughes	2000	New York Rangers	F
217	Eric Florchuk	2000	Washington Capitals	F

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